Florida GOP's latest culture war law would take aim at government workers

Florida homeowners are feeling significant financial pain from skyrocketing home insurance costs, and the state is also still suffering from some of the highest rates of inflation in the nation.

But for the time being, however, it appears that Florida's state legislators are focused on other areas — such as cracking down on state workers who want others to use their preferred gender pronouns.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that Republican state legislators are crafting a bill that would "prevent employees of government agencies and contractors from providing to their employers preferred pronouns that 'do not correspond to his or her sex' and would prevent employers from asking workers to provide personal pronouns."

The bill would also bar state and local governments from requiring workers to use a "person’s preferred personal title or pronouns if such personal title or pronouns do not correspond to that person’s sex."

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In addition to all that, the bill would bar nonprofit organizations that receive state funding from engaging in "training, instruction or other activity on sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has frequently championed such culture-war legislation, including the highly controversial so-called "Don't Say Gay" law that prevents public school teachers from bringing up sexual orientation in classrooms under any context.

DeSantis has regularly boasted that his state is "where woke goes to die."